astFandl

Identify the used section of a string

Description:

This function searches a specified section of the supplied text for non-space characters, returning the indices of the first and last.

Synopsis

void astFandl_( const char ∗text, size_t start, size_t end, size_t ∗f, size_t ∗l )

Parameters:

text
The text string to be seached.
start
The zero-based index of the first character to be checked within " text" . The whole string is used if " start" is greater than " end" .
end
The zero-based index of the last character to be checked within " text" . The whole string is used if " start" is greater than " end" . The last character is used if " end" is greater than the length of the string.
f
Returned holding the zero-based index of the first non-space character. Ignored if NULL.
l
Returned holding the zero-based index of the last non-space character. Ignored if NULL.

Notes:

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